On Monday, June 27, 2022, the Nationwide Institute of Artwork Historical past (Institut nationwide d’histoire de l’artwork – INHA) presents “Performativités Noires: cultures visuelles, corps noirs et performances” [Black erformativity: visual cultures, black bodies, and performance], organized by INHA researcher Vivian Braga dos Santos. Léna Blou—dancer and choreographer from Guadeloupe, researcher, and creator of Techni’ka—and Mahalia Lassibille—dance anthropologist, specialised in Africa and professor at Paris 8—will focus on the performativity of black our bodies in dance.
Description: The examine of the circulation of so-called African dances within the Atlantic calls for brand new readings of the notions of “conventional” and “modern” in addition to new analytical instruments with a purpose to perceive the inventive processes, the repertoires, the influences, transformations, appropriations, and reinterpretations of those practices right this moment. For this assembly of the “Black Performativity” seminar on dance, it will likely be a query of immersing oneself, by way of a dialogue between dance and anthropology, within the universe of data of the practices of the WoDaaBE and, by the use of creation, within the aesthetics of dysfunction as resistance that the Bigidi teaches us. In these two examples of the transmission and transformation of dances, dancing black our bodies occupy the place of bodily reminiscence of gestures and testify to an aesthetics-politics of resilience and survival.
For extra data, see https://www.inha.fr/fr/recherche/programmation-scientifique/en-2021-2022/seminaire-performativites-noires-cultures-visuelles-corps-noirs-et-performances.html